13/1 The potential of using technology-infused materials for art making and classrooms

The potential of using technology-infused materials for art making and classrooms

To be honest, I have to say before I  am taking this class, I am not a big fun of new technology artworks, because I don't think that is art, I feel like art is more about a concept, like a painting work or a video work, but combined with some technology ideas I am not really fascinated about it. Also, I am really scared of using technology to my artworks, because I think it is not that safe and I am afraid that I will hurt myself or something, another thing is I am not really good at using computer software, like photoshop, illustrator and etc. So before this class start, I am so worried about myself, I feel like I have no ideas in this class, I can't imagine the rest of my life at TC because I feel like I will make a lot of mistakes in this classroom and maybe make some artworks which are not safe. But when I learned all these new things in Richard's class,  I realized that I was totally wrong. Technology is not a monster, it won't eat me. Moreover, I see so many potentials of using technology for art making and classrooms. I want to share this link first http://www.weiwang-art.com/, this is my website, and you can see a big different with my old works. I remembered this semester in Dr. Burton's class,  she invited two elementary art teachers and their students to have a conversation with us. That night they shared about what they learned in their classroom, I was so surprised, because they are learning about everything, not only about traditional art, but also they learned how to draw something on iPad or Photoshop, a boy shared his thought, he said he is really fascinated on technology, he hope all of art teachers can teach them more about using technology to making art, not just doing color mixing or some traditional artworks. At that time, I realized that we are living in the technology world and especially for kids, they grow up with technology, they need to learn more about technology to design more fabulous technology in the future. Also technology skill it is different with traditional art skill, in traditional art if you want to enhance your art skill, you need to practice for a long time, but technology skill it is different, everything it's already there, you just need to remember the steps of how to making it, just like doing mathematics, I think that is the reason why students feel very confident of using technology to make their artworks.

Personal Learning Objective

1. Build up the concept about New Media and New form.
2. hope I can create more and more new media way to teach my students in the future or doing my own works.
3.Know more and more new media concept artist
4.Visit lot of technology art museum or gallery
5.Compare the differences and similarities between traditional art and technology art.
6. Hope I will be more confidence for teaching in the future.
7.Why people like using media and social media, is that really helpful in our life?
8.Connect to the readings: I hope I can design a new media class for K-12 teaching in the future, also hope my students like this class, it is trying to break the traditional way of teaching art.

How I managed to meet, change, or not meet these goals

First, I think I build up a lot of concept about New Media and New form, for instance, my works in this class, is not only about the technique, I also combined with my Fine Arts background into my artworks, I am exploring the relationship between New Media and Fine Arts, hence I think I did some good works in this class. Moreover, I did some lesson plan for my future students, hope they will like my class. I want to teach them about everything we covered in this class, especially Coding, as I mentioned in my previous assignment, I found a great coding website for kids, it's designed by Disney and the main character is from Frozen, I feel like young child will be involved in this coding class with their favorite animation characters. 

The MetroCAF 2016 gave me a strong impression. MetroCAF is the annual NYC Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival organized by the New York City chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH. Thier works are about animations, but using a new way to work on it. First computer art field is a new media concept because computer lets us know that art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, video game, website, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. The winner of 2016 MetroCAF artwork are more focused on the concept, I can see the relationship between fine arts and computer art world, so I believe this is a new way of making computer art, computer art also could have some deep ideas. 

I think I meet most of my goals, but one thing I need to disagree with myself is, new media is not only on the surface, but also could be deep. Everything is art, doing new media is to break the traditional way of making art, to push artists to a new level. 

Let's take a selfie

On my Blog :
Share my process: 😎 I shared my process on my blog
Explain my outcome: 😎 I explained my outcome on my blog
Linked my vocabulary: 😃I was able to link the vocaublary
Found multiple possibilities: 😐I found some multiple possibilities, but it is more link with fine arts field
I persevered to complete the project successfully:😎I try my best to complete my project successfully and combine with fine arts field in order to found more possiblities  
Eliminate carelessness:😑 I still need to be more careful when I making my artworks 

13/2 Final Project

Description:
I want to make this work like a game to express my concept. It's like make a connection between fine arts and technology art. The concept of my artwork is about a person or a group of people who are not want to be judged by the justice hammer. This idea is based on one of my favorite movie The Reader. In my opinion, this film it is not a love story, it is talk about what is justice. The unfortunate thing in our society is when the group of people is against the law, they feel like they are innocent, because everybody doing the same thing, it is not a criminal behavior in their minds. 

Medium:
Processing, video camera, iMovie

Coding:

12/2 3 connections between "making" and an art-classroom

1.  Seymour Papert states (1971), "Some think of use the computer to program the kid; others think of using the program the computer.But most of them have at least this in common: the transaction between the computer and the kid will be some kind of "conversation" or "questions and answers " in word or numbers. " In my opinion, to teach kids about technology are very important, because we are living in the technology world and we are using technology everyday. Kids will explore more interesting artworks in the classroom, a lot of people in my country China, think kids are too young to learn technology, so when was a little girl in my country, our computer class is learn how to type and some other basic skill of using computer. This is not a positive to kids to learn, because how to use computer or other devices are very easy for kids, they will know how to play with them without any instruction. I believe with the development of technology, kids need to have technology class in the art classroom,  kids always lights up my ideas, although some of their ideas are not easy to do or are not possible, for scientist they also let their impossible ideas to be true. It is great to provide kids an art class for making technology work
2. I love the video of Sylvia's mini make show, because she changing herself to make projects in science, technology, engineering and math. This will be a great example for kids, I think for every teacher should know is never underestimate your students, any of your new lesson in the classroom for kids, will give them a lot of imaginations. Give more opportunities for them can let them to think about by themselves, not just asked teacher how to do it or followed by teacher. Asked kids to followed by teacher is training them to be a robot and they will not think like human beings anymore.

1. Sylvia Libow Martinez (2013),"  Students will learn, they will invent, they will teach, they will collaborate, and they will share knowledge when it best suits their needs, interests, and style." I believe teaching is not only teach students a new skill, it is more about help students to develop their own ideas with the skill they have learned in the classroom. I think the reason why there are a lot of differences between China and American education, because most of Chinese are believe Buddhism and the central concept is samsara, means the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth. The principle symbol is a cycle, hence in education, still followed the old way of teaching and it is repeating. But most of American is Christian; the principle of the symbol is a cross, and it has vertical and horizontal direction. I think the horizontal represents the teaching of art technique; the vertical represent the concept. Hence the American education always can lead students to a new level to explore art.

12/1 circuit project

This work named Light Fish. This is my first circuit project, it was so fun and I want to make it looks more real, thats why I am using cup to do my project.

11/2 Final Project

Title: Untitled

Medium: Coding, Performance,Video

Description:

Theme: Justice 

Creative Code: Dropping gavels,use projector to show my coding work on the screen

Performance and Video: Film myself to avoid the dropping gavels. 

11/1 Group 3D Work

Dahye, Seung and Wei



Description: Nowadays, with the development of technology, there are a lot of things we lost in our life. People spent more and more times on social medias. So our project's concept is about the relationship between human and technology. The reason why the heart is blue, becuase of Pablo Picaaso's blue period. We want to express a feeling of somber.

10/4 2D Project Laser Cut

Laser cut my illustration work on my Notebook. 

Illustration 

Farewell My Concubine

 

Notebook